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Binary or Manual? Install Finecs alongside MacPorts-Python34

–2 votes

I use Mac OS X 10.9.2.

Using Macports I installed python 3.4.1. and scipy into the directory

opt/local/

to keep python 3.4.1 from interfering with the system built in python 2.7.
Finecs does not show up on MacPorts.

My question:
Can I just download and install the binary files in opt/local/ or will the binary interact with the system-python27? Or is the manual installation then the way to go instead?

Thanks in advance!

asked Apr 16, 2014 by jegmi FEniCS Novice (270 points)

2 Answers

+2 votes

If you use the mac binary from fenicsproject.org it is installed in /Applications. It will not interfere with your python installations. The mac binary uses the system python. So your PATH should include system python. See it with "which python". If you have made the macports python as the default python (which is in your PATH), then you may have problems running mac binary.

answered Apr 16, 2014 by praveen FEniCS User (2,760 points)
+1 vote

FEniCS does not support Python 3.

answered Apr 23, 2014 by Garth N. Wells FEniCS Expert (35,930 points)
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